Sunday, January 8, 2012

Sifting


With a new year comes new perspectives and new goals.  It is a time to review, reflect, and to toss out if necessary.  We weed through closets, basements, and trunks making a new start for 2012.  Things pile up and once out of sight they are out of mind.  The same is true with my iPad.  With months of searching for apps that could benefit the classroom and my life I have gathered quite a collection.  Now it is time to sift through what I found and make some choices. 

My Teacher Hat
The apps that, if my iPad were on fire, I would run in and rescue:
Evernote          Puppet Pals

The old stand by – there when you need them:
Google Earth          Puzzled History USA Lite      Super 7 HD
Math Drills             Fotopedia Heritage

The apps that I have high hopes for but have yet to find purpose:
123D Sculpt          Join Me
Qwiki                    Comic Book
LeafsnapHD

The need to test drive apps:
Toontastic             Living Earth
Mini Monsters      Solar Walk
Star Walk             3D CellStain
Coloruncovered   Educreations
Voice Thread

My “Other Life” Hat (is there such a thing?)
The apps that, if my iPad were on fire, I would run in and rescue:
Zite           Epicurious

The old stand by - there when you need them:
NPR       Stitcher
TED       PBS Kids

The apps that I have high hopes for but have yet to find purpose:
Cool Hunting        Total Recall

What would you put in each category?

For more apps discovered by TLC visit the spreadsheet - https://sites.google.com/a/waynflete.org/tlc/ipads/apps

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for these apps Tim. A great list. My "must have" apps would be - Evernote, Email, Calendar, The Weather Channel, (in my hopes that it will snow one day), Epicurious, NYTimes, Pandora.

    The ones I want to play with but haven't yet - Educreations, join me, CloudOn - I'm sure there are some others (plenty of others).

    And one I am still searching for - a "to do" list that will sync with my desktop at work (and my iphone). Right now, I am using Evernote.

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